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Code and website related to the eICU Collaborative Research Database
https://eicu-crd.mit.edu
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empty volumeffluid in infusiondrug table #35

Closed young310 closed 4 years ago

young310 commented 6 years ago

two quick question,

  1. What is the relationship between volumeoffluid and drug amount? Does volumeoffluid also contain drug amount?
  2. Why there exist empty volumeffluid? I found that most of the NS fluid has empty value screenshot 2018-05-01 00 38 34
alistairewj commented 6 years ago

From the doc (https://eicu-crd.mit.edu/eicutables/infusionDrug/):

Infusion drugs entered directly into the source system (eCareManager) by clinicians must include the concentration of the drug being infused. This is done by entering the “drugAmount” and “volumeOfFluid” and this is independent of the amount being infused (drugRate or infusionRate). Interfaced values from source EMRs may not contain the concentration.

Drug amount is the amount of drug in the bag, volume of fluid is the volume of the bag.